The White House Egg Roll

Last minutes changes to White House policy regarding the lamest event of the year screws over the gays.

That's right, a few families with gay parents have been camped out at the White House since Friday in order to get tickets to the White House egg roll today. However, at the last minute the homo-hating President and his horror of a wife changed the rules so that tickets were handed out only for the 11 am to 2pm time slot, well after the 8 am start time and well after Laura Bush flashes a dead smile to CNN and FOX News and gets the hell out of there.

Nice move, Rove. Nice move.

I like this story because it shows just how uncomfortable Republicans are with diversity, and with gay people in particular. These families aren't really engaging in any forceful protest or demanding "special treatment." They haven't even made this a gay issue. And yet the Bush Administration needs to badly to fluff up its approval ratings with its base, that it is willing to turn a totaly normal, human story into a gay-bashing one. It's cheap, sleazy and best of all it's really not working. Changing the rules at the last minute makes the Administration look mean-spirited and exlusionary.

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